News tagged with stimulus
Stimulus grant will improve physics arXiv
Nov 18, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Stimulus funding will enhance Cornell's e-print arXiv of scientific papers to help users identify a work's main concepts, see research reports in context and easily find related work.
Funding A Greener Grid: How Obama plans to spend billions on modernizing the U.S. electrical network
Oct 29, 2009 |
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President Barack Obama announced on Tuesday that his administration plans to spend $3.4 billion on producing a safer, more efficient electrical grid. Obama underscored the need to find clean forms of energ ...
Obama unveils historic power grid reform
Oct 27, 2009 |
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President Barack Obama Tuesday announced the largest modernization of the US electricity grid in history, in a 3.4-billion-dollar bid to launch a new era of renewable energy consumption.
Obama says $5B in grants will aid medical research
Sep 30, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Calling scientific research a job-creating engine, President Barack Obama heralded $5 billion in new government grants Wednesday to fight cancer, autism and heart disease while boosting the economy.
US tops $1 bln in stimulus for clean energy projects
Sep 22, 2009 |
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The US government has spent more than one billion dollars on private sector renewable energy projects from the massive economic stimulus program passed seven months ago, officials said Tuesday.
Schwarzenegger to veto renewable energy bills
Sep 13, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's office said Saturday that he would veto legislation requiring a third of California's energy to come from renewable sources by 2020, choosing instead to mandate the change through an ...
$100 million question: Where's broadband in US?
Sep 12, 2009 |
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(AP) -- The national stimulus package passed by Congress in February may have been too enthusiastic about spending money on one particular project: figuring out where broadband Internet access is available ...
Go for gigabit speeds: America should expect nothing less
Sep 01, 2009 |
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As federal officials begin reviewing 2,200 detailed proposals requesting more than seven times the $4 billion in broadband investment in this round of stimulus funding, it's a good time to revisit the big-picture and ask ...
Many interested in broadband stimulus funds
Aug 27, 2009 |
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(AP) -- "Cash for Clunkers" isn't the only economic stimulus program to attract a lot of takers.
Thinking crickets -- 'cognitive' processes underlie memory recall in crickets
Aug 04, 2009 |
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Activation of two different kinds of neurons is necessary for appetitive and aversive memory recall in crickets. Researchers writing in the open access journal BMC Biology blocked octopaminergic (OA-ergic) and dopaminergic (DA-er ...
Paperless health care? One hospital's long journey
Jul 07, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Baby Riley Matthews wheezed noisily on the exam table. "He's belly-breathing," the emergency-room doctor said worriedly - Riley's little abdomen was markedly rising and falling with each breath, a sign of respiratory ...
Senator may have won fight over private rocket manufacturing
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jul 03, 2009 |
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For months, a powerful Republican senator from Alabama has fought the Obama administration to block $150 million that the White House wanted to spend to help private companies build rockets capable of reaching the international ...
Which treatment works best? Top study needs listed
Jun 30, 2009 |
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(AP) -- The government is about to start a huge research effort to prove which are the best treatments for scores of ailments. Irregular heartbeat, prostate cancer, back pain and hearing loss lead the list of medical problems ...
Honeybees overcome negative buzz in Washington
Jun 23, 2009 |
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Official Washington is all abuzz over honeybees.
Ground zero in timber wars shows signs of peace
Jun 21, 2009 |
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(AP) -- On a steep slope of the Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest, a crew of young men with chain saws and hardhats worked their way through an old neglected clearcut, cutting brush and young trees and ...
